"Corinne Chapelle Corinne Chapelle (born 1976 in California) is a French-American violinist, who started her violin studies as a two-year-old and gave her first concert one year later. She studied with Yehudi Menuhin at his school in England, following which she studied at the Juilliard School of Music and joined Pinchas Zukerman's class in New York. Upon hearing Chapelle at the age of fifteen, Yehudi Menuhin said about her: ""One of the most promising talents of her generation"". These studies were further complemented by working with Ana Chumachenco, Lorand Fenyves and Josef Gingold. Chapelle has received various awards at international"
"Jeremy Menuhin Jeremy Louis Eugene Menuhin (born 2 November 1951) is a British pianist and the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California, the fourth son of his father Yehudi Menuhin and the second of his mother Diana Gould Menuhin. He attended Eton College near Windsor, Berkshire. He describes his childhood as economically privileged but emotionally ""grotesque"", his father as ""cold and detached"", and his mother as ""domineering and volatile"". Unlike father Yehudi, who was pushed towards music at a young age by his own mother (Jeremy's grandmother), Jeremy himself did not have any musical"
"Devi and Iyengar were students of Krishnamacharya, a famous yoga master in India. Menuhin used a number of famous violins, arguably the most renown of which is the ""Lord Wilton Guarnerius 1742"". Others included the ""Giovanni Bussetto 1680"", ""Giovanni Grancino 1695"", ""Guarneri filius Andrea 1703"", ""Soil Stradivarius"", ""Prince Khevenhüller 1733 Stradivari"", and ""Guarneri del Gesù 1739"". Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 191612 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. Yehudi Menuhin was born in"
"Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists The Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists (or simply the Menuhin Competition) is an international music competition for violinists under the age of 22. It was founded by Yehudi Menuhin in 1983 with the goal of nurturing young violinists. In its early years, the competition took place in Folkestone on the south coast of England. Since 1998, it has been held biennially in different cities around the world. Several of the competition's past laureates, including Julia Fischer, Tasmin Little, and Nikolaj Znaider, have gone on to major international careers. A member of"
"Yaltah Menuhin Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001) was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet. Yaltah was born in San Francisco, the youngest of three extraordinarily musically gifted children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist writer, Menuhin was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. Yaltah was named after her mother, Marutha's, home town of Yalta in Crimea. At the age of three, she became part of the rigorous regime already imposed on her siblings: the family employed tutors for the children, and Yaltah"
"Yehudi Menuhin School The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The current Director of Music is Òscar Colomina i Bosch. The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, Wells Cathedral School, the Purcell School and St. Mary's Music School, Edinburgh. Yehudi Menuhin founded the School to provide an environment and tuition for musically gifted children from all over the world to pursue their love of music, develop their musical potential, and achieve standards"
"on being involved in his children's lives; even after he and his wife later divorced, they continued to live within walking distance of each other so that Menuhin could maintain contact with his son. In 2007, he married South Korean pianist Mookie Lee, with whom he has a daughter, Anouk Chiara Sumi Menuhin (born 2008). Jeremy Menuhin Jeremy Louis Eugene Menuhin (born 2 November 1951) is a British pianist and the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California, the fourth son of his father Yehudi Menuhin and the second of his mother Diana Gould Menuhin."
"Gerard Menuhin Gerard Menuhin (born 1948 in Scotland) is a writer, whose book ""Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil"" was published in 2015. He is the son of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and dancer Diana Gould, and brother of pianist Jeremy Menuhin. Born in July 1948 in Scotland, United Kingdom, he is the son of Jewish parents, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and dancer Diana Gould. He attended Eton College, completing his studies at Stanford University in California. The brother of the pianist Jeremy Menuhin, Gerard did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father or brother and"
"death in 1999, has been published in late 2008. This book contains some information concerning Hephzibah's life. Hephzibah Menuhin Hephzibah Menuhin (20 May 19201 January 1981) was an American-Australian pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a gifted linguist and writer, co-authoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser. Hephzibah Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist writer, Menuhin was descended from a distinguished rabbinical"
"and the remainder assisted by bursaries from the School. The school is a registered charity under English law. Yehudi Menuhin School The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The current Director of Music is Òscar Colomina i Bosch. The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, Wells Cathedral School, the Purcell School and St. Mary's Music School, Edinburgh. Yehudi Menuhin founded the School to provide an environment and tuition for musically gifted children"
"daughter of Albert Struyvenberg from Seattle. In 1990, he and Eva had one child together, Maxwell Duncan Menuhin, but later divorced. Gerard Menuhin Gerard Menuhin (born 1948 in Scotland) is a writer, whose book ""Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil"" was published in 2015. He is the son of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and dancer Diana Gould, and brother of pianist Jeremy Menuhin. Born in July 1948 in Scotland, United Kingdom, he is the son of Jewish parents, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and dancer Diana Gould. He attended Eton College, completing his studies at Stanford University in California. The"
"In 2012, the first concert was a recital by British violinist Julia Fischer in the church at Saanen. Other prominent soloists include pianist András Schiff, soprano Cecilia Bartoli, and cellist Sol Gabetta. Menuhin Festival Gstaad The Menuhin Festival Gstaad is a music festival founded by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin held every summer since 1957 in the Swiss alpine town of Gstaad. The Menuhin family settled in Gstaad in 1957, the year of the first Menuhin Festival Gstaad. It now consists of more than 50 concerts over a period of seven weeks, with a vast array of famous soloists and ensembles"
"Hephzibah Menuhin Hephzibah Menuhin (20 May 19201 January 1981) was an American-Australian pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a gifted linguist and writer, co-authoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser. Hephzibah Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California. Through her father Moshe Menuhin, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist writer, Menuhin was descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. Her mother, Marutha, has been described as ""dominant and controlling"". The Menuhin children had little formal"
"soloists, chorus and orchestra (Monte-Carlo, 1889), Scherzo symphonique (1902), Intermezzo for horn and orchestra (1909), a Marche Inaugurale (for the opening of the Musée Océanographique, 1909) and a Suite symphonique (1921). Léon Jehin Léon Jehin (17 July 1853 – 14 February 1928) was a conductor and composer, especially associated with musical life and the opera house in Monte Carlo. He also composed the national anthem of Monaco. Jehin was born at Spa, Belgium. studied at the conservatoire in Liege and then in Brussels. He was a violinist at La Monnaie in the Belgian capital, then conducted at Anvers, Aix-les-Bains and"
"Concerto in G minor with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. In April 2016, he was the youngest juror ever of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in London, with Pamela Frank, Joji Hattori, Martin Engstroem, Ning Feng, Julia Fischer, Dong-Suk Kang, Tasmin Little and Jeremy Menuhin. He plays the 1715 ""Joachim"" Stradivarius. Ray Chen Ray Chen (born 6 March 1989) is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and now records on the Sony Masterworks label. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen"
"in Gstaad, Switzerland. In 1962, he established the Yehudi Menuhin School in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey. He also established the music program at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, California, sometime around then. In 1965 he received an honorary knighthood from the British monarchy. In the same year, Australian composer Malcolm Williamson wrote a violin concerto for Menuhin. He performed the concerto many times and recorded it at its premiere at the Bath Festival in 1965. Originally known as the Bath Assembly, the festival was first directed by the impresario Ian Hunter in 1948. After the first year the city tried to"
"and changed their surname to Menuhin. He later moved to California, where he worked as a Hebrew teacher. A committed anti-Zionist, he was the author of ""The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time"" and ""Jewish Critics of Zionism"", and of the family history ""The Menuhin Saga"". Moshe Menuhin was the father of renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin and pianists Hephzibah Menuhin and Yaltah Menuhin. Moshe Menuhin Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983) was born Moshe Mnuchin in Gomel to a distinguished, religious Jewish family. He was the great great grandson of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism. When the family moved"
"the City of London, for the commemoration of the Independence of the Dominican Republic at the Bolivar Hall. In January 2009, Syed won an international contest in which three thousand young people from 20 countries took part. She won the Cassandra 2009 as an International Violinist. Aisha Syed Castro Aisha Syed Castro (born September 15, 1989) is a Dominican violinist and a member of the Yehudi Menuhin School orchestra. Aisha was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the daughter of Saifuddin Syed, of Pakistani descent and Carolina Castro. She is the second of four children. She has three siblings: one sister,"
"Vadim Repin Vadim Viktorovich Repin (; ; born 31 August 1971) is a Russian-born Belgian violinist who lives in Vienna. After hearing one of Repin's performances, violinist Yehudi Menuhin said: ""Vadim Repin is simply the best and most perfect violinist that I have ever had the chance to hear."" Vadim Repin was born in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, on 31 August 1971. He began to play the violin at the age of five with Dmitry Vaks, on the initiative of which two years later he moved to study with Zakhar Bron, the famous violin teacher. At only eleven, he won the"
"2012 he won first place in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Beijing. He first attended the New England Conservatory for the first two years of his college education and is a senior at Juilliard in New York. His teachers include Li Lin, Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, and Midori Goto. He has been loaned violins from the Stradivari Society of Chicago. He was also one of 12 finalists in the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Kenneth Renshaw Kenneth Renshaw is an American concert violinist. Renshaw was born in San Francisco to Kerrilyn, a concert pianist and"
"Menuhin Festival Gstaad The Menuhin Festival Gstaad is a music festival founded by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin held every summer since 1957 in the Swiss alpine town of Gstaad. The Menuhin family settled in Gstaad in 1957, the year of the first Menuhin Festival Gstaad. It now consists of more than 50 concerts over a period of seven weeks, with a vast array of famous soloists and ensembles alike. In 2012, it was held between Friday, 20 July and 8 September. Although Gstaad is the main focus of activities, many events take place in other venues in the Bernese Oberland."
"Moshe Menuhin Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983) was born Moshe Mnuchin in Gomel to a distinguished, religious Jewish family. He was the great great grandson of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism. When the family moved to Palestine, Moshe was sent to Orthodox Jewish schools, first to Yeshivas in Jerusalem, then to the Hebrew Gymnasia Herzlia in Jaffa - Tel Aviv. In 1913 he came to the United States to complete his higher education, attending New York University where he studied mathematics, political science and education. In late 1919 he and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens,"
"friend of Mendelssohn's and a leading violinist of the period, who in fact had premiered his Violin Concerto in E minor. Yehudi Menuhin, the violin virtuoso, was shown the manuscript of the concerto in the spring of 1951 in London by Albi Rosenthal, an amateur violinist and rare books dealer. He bought the rights to the concerto from members of the Mendelssohn family residing in Switzerland. Menuhin edited the concerto for performance and had it published by Peters Edition. On 4 February 1952, Menuhin introduced the concerto to a Carnegie Hall audience with a ""string Band"", conducting the concerto from"
"rights activist Hephzibah, and pianist, painter and poet Yaltah. Menuhin's first violin instruction was at age four by Sigmund Anker (1891–1958); his parents had wanted Louis Persinger to teach him, but Persinger refused. Menuhin displayed exceptional musical talent at an early age. His first public appearance, when he was seven years old, was as solo violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1923. Persinger then agreed to teach him and accompanied him on the piano for his first few solo recordings in 1928–29. When the Menuhins moved to Paris, Persinger suggested Menuhin go to Persinger's old teacher, Belgian virtuoso"
"education until his nanny began arranging it in response to his interest. However, Yehudi began paying more attention to his son's musical career when his talent became clear. Jeremy studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, piano in Israel with Mindru Katz, and conducting in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky. Menuhin made his London debut at the age of 15, on his father's fiftieth birthday, performing with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Later that year, he played at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad established by his father nine years earlier, and proceeded to wider public attention as a musician in his own right."
"in Gstaad, Switzerland. In June 2007, he took up the post as president of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in Grenchen, Switzerland. Since 2009, there is no indication to be found of Menuhin's continuing administrative position with the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. He has previously worked for Menuhin IP Management GmbH (Menuhin IP Management Ltd liab Co) (Menuhin IP Management Sàrl) in Schöfflisdorf which owns the official Yehudi Menuhin website. The content of the website, however, is controlled by two of Yehudi Menuhin's other children, Jeremy Menuhin and Zamira Menuhin Benthall, as directors of SYM Music Company Limited. Like his grandfather, Moshe"
"art, by means of awards and bursaries. The distinguished French pianist, Cécile Ousset, is Honorary Patron of the Yaltah Menuhin Memorial Fund. As part of a revamped prize package for the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Yaltah Menuhin Award became a permanent feature of The Leeds in 2018, presented to the pianist who demonstrates the greatest collaborative and empathetic qualities in the chamber performance of the semi-final. Recipients of the Yaltah Menuhin Award include: Mario Häring<br> Lezanti van Sittert<br> Roelof Temmingh<br> Kensuke Kawajiri<br> Sulayman Human<br> Eben Wagenstroom<br> Melissa Tu Yaltah Menuhin Yaltah Menuhin (7 October 1921 – 9 June 2001)"
"Violin Concerto, which Menuhin had recorded with the composer in 1932. On 22 April 1978, along with Stéphane Grappelli, Yehudi played ""Pick Yourself Up"", taken from the ""Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter and Rodgers & Hart"" album as the interval act at the 23rd Eurovision Song Contest for TF1. The performance came direct from the studios of TF1 and not that of the venue (Palais des Congrès), where the contest was being held. Menuhin hosted the PBS telecast of the gala opening concert of the San Francisco Symphony from Davies Symphony Hall in September 1980. His recording contract"
"Masters, the founding Director of the Yehudi Menuhin School. The First Prize winner in the Senior category also receives a one-year loan of a ""golden age"" Stradivarius violin. The First Prize winner of the Junior category receives a one-year loan of a ""fine old Italian violin"". The 2016 competition had 44 competitors—37 girls and seven boys. The top four prizes in the Senior category were won by young violinists from China, South Korea, and Taiwan. The top prize-winners in the Junior category were from the United States, South Korea, Sweden, and Germany. The competition was founded by Yehudi Menuhin and"
"Léon Jehin Léon Jehin (17 July 1853 – 14 February 1928) was a conductor and composer, especially associated with musical life and the opera house in Monte Carlo. He also composed the national anthem of Monaco. Jehin was born at Spa, Belgium. studied at the conservatoire in Liege and then in Brussels. He was a violinist at La Monnaie in the Belgian capital, then conducted at Anvers, Aix-les-Bains and Covent Garden. Having become an assistant conductor in Brussels, from 1889 until his death he was appointed the conductor of the Monte Carlo Opera in succession to Arthur Steck. His first"
"Joel Ryce-Menuhin Joel Ryce-Menuhin (June 11, 1933 – March 31, 1998) was an American pianist, who later became a Jungian psychologist in private practice. Joel Ryce-Menuhin was born as Joel Taylor Rice in Sterling, Illinois to Joseph Kenneth Rice (1901–1998) and Emily Bours Thompson Rice (1898–1982). At a young age he showed considerable talent as a pianist, attending the Juilliard School along with pianist Van Cliburn as a student of Rosina Lhévinne. While later studying in London with famed pianist Dame Myra Hess in 1959, Joel Rice was introduced to Yaltah Menuhin, sister of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who had come"
"Lord Wilton The Lord Wilton Guarnerius, sometimes called the ex-Yehudi Menuhin, is an antique and valuable violin fabricated by Italian luthier Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri (1698–1744), usually called Guarneri del Gesù. The violin was made in 1742 in the city of Cremona. It was named after Seymour Egerton, 4th Earl of Wilton, a musician, associate of Arthur Sullivan, and 19th century owner of the instrument. It was owned and played by the celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin from 1978 to 1999. After Menuhin's death in 1999, the instrument was sold for US$6 million to the collector David L. Fulton, the highest price"
"in Italy, and subsequently in Austria (1995, 1996), Turkey (1995), the Czech Republic (1995), France (1997), Switzerland (1997, 2000), and again in Italy (1995–1997). The Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra visited and organized concerts in several cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In October 1996 Yehudi Menuhin came to Sarajevo and conducted the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1997, by the invitation of UNESCO's Director-General, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra went to Paris and performed a concert there. In 1998 the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Ravenna, and in 1999, in the United States and Netherlands; in the summers of 1998 and"